Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of slain toddler Caylee Anthony, was called to speak in court about the 911 calls she made regarding the whereabouts of her then-missing granddaughter.

Defense attorney Jose Baez questioned Cindy Anthony about the car, which she said was registered in her name but used by her daughter, Casey. Cindy Anthony said she and her husband, George Anthony, picked the car up at an impound lot.

Cindy Anthony said that her husband told her the car smelled and would need to be cleaned and aired out.

"He said it smelled like something had died in the car, like a dead body," she said.

Baez asked if George Anthony, who has law enforcement experience, would know what a dead body smells like -- Cindy Anthony said he would.

Cindy Anthony said that while she did ask her daughter to bring the car home two weeks prior to the call, she said she told the 911 operator that Casey Anthony stole the vehicle because she wanted to speak to an officer.

“I didn’t think that if I just said she wouldn’t take me to see my granddaughter, that her and I might just be having an argument,” Cindy Anthony said. “I didn’t want them to just think I was a crazy grandmother."

Cindy Anthony said she called again to report Caylee missing but did not feel that authorities were going to make her report a priority.

"Everything I stated was said … was to get them out there," Cindy Anthony said.

She said she then panicked when she overheard a conversation between Casey Anthony and Casey's brother, Lee.

"I overheard Casey saying that she hadn't seen Caylee in 31 days," Cindy Anthony said. "That's when I ran in her room. I was in shock. I was hysterical."

She said she asked if what she overheard was true and then called 911 a third time.

"There's something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car,” she said in the 911 call.

Casey Anthony’s defense team did want the jury in her murder trial to hear the 911 calls.

Usually, 911 calls are considered hearsay and are only admitted with certain legal exceptions. State prosecutors argued that the calls should be admitted because they show Casey Anthony’s pattern of telling lies about her daughter’s disappearance.

In another call to 911, Cindy Anthony told the operator that, “My daughter finally admitted that the babysitter stole her. I need to find her.”

Thursday’s hearing was the first time that the entire Anthony family has been in the courtroom together since Casey Anthony was indicted in 2008.

An attorney for the prosecution asked Cindy Anthony about the extent of her knowledge pertaining to the smell of a dead body.

Cindy testified that during the time she was making the 911 calls, she had no contact with her husband and said she hoped the police would force Casey Anthony to tell her where Caylee was.

"You had no idea or thought at that point that Caylee could be deceased, and therefore that there was a connection between no Caylee and the smell in the car," said the prosecutor.

"Correct," Cindy Anthony answered.

She said that she felt law enforcement did not believe Caylee was alive at the time she was reported missing. She told the defense that she still believes Caylee is alive.

"I still think Caylee is alive," Cindy Anthony said.

Lee Anthony took the stand to talk about when his mother made the 911 calls.

"I was just trying to reason with Casey to answer my mom or do what she was asking and go to get Caylee,” Lee said. “It didn’t make sense not to.”

Lee Anthony said he was "dumbfounded" and "shocked" when his sister admitted to him that she had not seen her daughter in 31 days.

After addressing the motion regarding the 911 calls, the judge also ruled that the list of material evidence the defense team reviewed this week will not be released.